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Drug bust on LCO reservation

June 24, 2009 By

POLICEfile.jpg State, county and tribal officials served a search warrant for illegal drugs on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation Tuesday. The action in the reservation's Drytown community resulted in the seizure of more than six and a half pounds of marijuana, prescription medications and approximately $2,500 cash.

Arrested on tentative charges of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver was 29 year-old Lac Courte Oreilles tribal member Melvin A. White, Jr. White also faces charges for an outstanding warrant for failure to pay a fine on a previous marijuana possession charge. Additional charges are anticipated. White is being held in the Sawyer County Jail in Hayward. The warrant was served by officers from the Sawyer County Sheriff's Department, LCO Police Department and the Wisconsin Department of Investigation Narcotics Bureau.  

Filed Under: Crime & Courts

Air race heads through Wisconsin

June 24, 2009 By

Women pilots fly over Wisconsin this week as part of the 80th Annual Air Race Classic. The transcontinental race began in Denver, Colorado Tuesday. The pilots fly through the deep south and back to the Midwest to wrap up in western Iowa. The all-women air race began 33 years ago as the Powder Puff Derby.

Lori Reid co-manages the Atlantic Municipal Airport, which serves as the finish line. She says the trip takes them through Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. The whole journey is about 2,400 miles. The pilots are required to arrive at the Atlantic airport by no later than 5 P.M. on Friday, but some may begin arriving as early as Thursday, depending on the weather.

Airplanes entered in the competition must be "stock" or minimally modified with a variety of restrictions on the engines. Reid says the planes are inspected at the beginning and end of the race to make sure no modifications have been made that would disqualify the racers. She says none of the women are professional racing pilots, but some do fly for a living, are professional instructors, or work for air ambulance services.

Thirty-four teams are registered for the event this year, with a total of 73 pilots. Included in the mix are seven collegiate teams comprised of women in their early 20s. The oldest pilot is Ruby Sheldon, who is 91.

Teams are expected to start landing at Batten International Airport in Racine at around 8 on Thursday morning.

Audio courtesy of Radio Iowa

AUDIO: Brian Moon reports (MP3 :70)

Filed Under: Transportation

Main street stabbing in small town

June 24, 2009 By

James Henke, Columbia Co. Sheriff's Dept. A man stabbed to death in Pardeeville early Tuesday may have been fighting over a woman with his alleged attacker. That's according to Columbia County Sheriff's Department investigators looking into the death of 43-year old Thomas Kratz of Montello.

Deputies were called just before 2:00 Tuesday morning and found Kratz lying in the street with a single stab wound from a large knife. The man suspected of attacking him, 46-year old James Henke, was taken into custody when officers arrived, and police say he's been cooperating with their investigation.

Filed Under: Crime & Courts

Recall Doyle effort includes lawmakers

June 24, 2009 By

Recall Doyle effort rallies at state capitol (Photo: Jackie Johnson) A group trying to recall the governor rallies at the capitol, saying enough is enough.

With a budget deficit of more than $6.6-billion, Wisconsinites Interests Now says the budget problem is much bigger than the governor. Vince Schmuki (shmoo-kee) of the group says the " Recall Doyle " effort has widened its target to include lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly.

"Because what's quite obvious, these are tone-deaf people; they really don't get it. Sometimes in politics it takes a two-by-four approach across the head to get somebody to wake up."

Schmuki says their recall efforts aim to highlight the budget-making process, which he says is very dishonest. Schmuki says he's had enough of deep-into-the-night sessions, behind closed door meetings, and decisions without public discussion. Schmuki is urging voters to do more than visit the polls in November, saying those who have a stake in the process actually need a voice in the process.

"We need people who are actively involved, contacting, being phycically present, being in the face of their legislators, their senators and their governor."

Schmuki stresses the dishonest, deficit-laden budget is going to hit our future generations pretty hard.

"Those are our children and our grandchildren. They're the one's who'll become economic slaves, paying off this debt. And this is not a small debt. We actually have a higher-per-capita debt than the state California, which I might add is bankrupt right now."

Schmuki says nobody can sustain this level of spending, and a corresponding amount of taxing to follow, without having destructive consequences to an economy, the state, and the future of Wisconsin. For naysayers, Schmuki explains that when the people no longer trust an elected official with their hard-earned money, a recall is not only allowed, but it is their duty.

The group is still in the organizational phase of their recall, and have not yet begun collecting signatures.

Doyle's office was contacted and they had no comment.

AUDIO: Jackie Johnson report (1:52 MP3)

Filed Under: Politics & Government, Top Story

Heed heat warnings

June 24, 2009 By

Hot weather arrives in Wisconsin Hot weather across much of the state has health officials issuing cautions. Stephanie Marquis with the state Department of Health Services reminds us to keep tabs on older neighbors and family members, and people with chronic health concerns. "Their medical condition can upset the body's normal responses to heat, or the medicines that they're taking can really impair the body's ability to regulate its temperature, or allow you to perspire." 

Marquis says even healthy people need to take it easy, whenever there are sustained periods with temperatures above ninety degrees. "Construction workers outside, people that work in hot environments such as a bakery, or farmers or firefighters, people in factories, all of those people may be at risk as well" says Marquis, because they may not be paying attention to the heat.

Symptoms such as dry, hot skin, dizziness, nausea, headaches and chills all point to heat stroke , which requires immediate medical attention. The best advice is to stay someplace cool and shady, and if you have to be outdoors, drink plenty of water.

AUDIO: Bob Hague reports (:55 MP3)

Filed Under: Health & Medicine, Top Story, Weather
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